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echo: os2prog
to: ALLAN MERTNER
from: ROBERT DEED
date: 1996-09-08 15:40:12
subject: Re: Speed Pascal

-> Hej Robert!

-> Sunday July 28 1996, Robert Deed writes to Allan Mertner:

->  RD>         The Port[] array is horrible... we are in OS/2 we shouldn't be
->  RD> access comports directly... and the DOSDEVIOCTL is what I am using in
->  RD> Speed,

-> There is nothing wring with using the Port[] array, even under OS/2.  After
-> all, it is just a wrapper to access I/O ports, that still goes through OS/2
-> protection mechanisms.  It certainly is both easier and faster than issuing
-> DosDevIOCtl calls.

        NO.  When you use the Port[] array it DOES NOT go through SIO.
I use 115200 locked com routines, and I don't feel like having my
computer slow down to a crawl when my bbs software is running.

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